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2008-09-22hrtimer: remove hrtimer_clock_base::get_softirq_time()Mark McLoughlin
Peter Zijlstra noticed this 8 months ago and I just noticed it again. hrtimer_clock_base::get_softirq_time() is currently unused in the entire tree. In fact, looking at the logs, it appears as if it was never used. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-19Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: fix deadlock in setting scheduler parameter to zero sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomly
2008-09-19Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clockevents: make device shutdown robust clocksource, acpi_pm.c: fix check for monotonicity clockevents: remove WARN_ON which was used to gather information
2008-09-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 Conflicts: arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_psycho.c
2008-09-16clockevents: make device shutdown robustThomas Gleixner
The device shut down does not cleanup the next_event variable of the clock event device. So when the device is reactivated the possible stale next_event value can prevent the device to be reprogrammed as it claims to wait on a event already. This is the root cause of the resurfacing suspend/resume problem, where systems need key press to come back to life. Fix this by setting next_event to KTIME_MAX when the device is shut down. Use a separate function for shutdown which takes care of that and only keep the direct set mode call in the broadcast code, where we can not touch the next_event value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-14Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/resourcesIngo Molnar
2008-09-14timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, cleanupsIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fixIngo Molnar
fix: kernel/fork.c:843: error: ‘struct signal_struct’ has no member named ‘sum_sched_runtime’ kernel/irq/handle.c:117: warning: ‘sparse_irq_lock’ defined but not used Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14timers: fix itimer/many thread hangFrank Mayhar
Overview This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling. It was put together with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code. The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads. It appears that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse. Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at which point things degrade rather quickly. This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF." Code Changes This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it run in constant time for a particular machine. (Performance may vary between one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single- or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of running processors.) To do this, at each tick we now update fields in signal_struct as well as task_struct. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function uses those fields to make its decisions. We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and scheduler times and use these in appropriate places: struct task_cputime { cputime_t utime; cputime_t stime; unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime; }; This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus multiprocessor kernels. For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer: struct thread_group_cputime { struct task_cputime totals; }; struct thread_group_cputime { struct task_cputime *totals; }; We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration of thread timers). The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends. In the non-SMP case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention). For SMP, the thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated using alloc_percpu(). The timer functions update only the timer field in the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr(). We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP implementations from the rest of the kernel. The thread_group_cputime_init() function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task. The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill in the per-cpu structures and fields. The thread_group_cputime_free() function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures. The thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been allocated. The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields; in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and, if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU. Finally, the three functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure. Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further. The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal(). It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from cleanup_signal(). All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated. Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting. With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away. All summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the thread_group_cputime() inline. When process-wide timers are set, the new task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest expiration; this is checked in the fast path. Performance The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations. It generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs very significantly better (Case 2 below). Overall it's a wash except in those two cases. I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system. Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system, all of which was spent in the system. There were twice as many voluntary context switches with the fix as without it. Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023 seconds per tick). Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had very nearly the same performance in both cases: 6.3 seconds elapsed for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel. With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus 5.8 seconds). The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel. Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits. Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was user time. The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system time. Really, though, the results were too close to call. The results were essentially the same with no itimer running. Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds (where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running, the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick. Otherwise, performance was almost indistinguishable. With no itimer running this test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases. In times past I did some limited performance testing. those results are below. On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s. On the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but system time dropped to 0.007 seconds. Performance with eight, four and one thread were comparable. Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed more accurate: The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720 for 0.061 seconds per tick. Both cases were configured for an interval of 0.01 seconds. Again, the other tests were comparable. Each thread in this test computed the primes up to 25,000,000. I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is impossible without the fix. In this case each thread computed the primes only up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable). System time dominated, at 1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of 629.938s). It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite accurate. There is obviously no comparable test without the fix. Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14Merge branch 'linus' into x86/iommuIngo Molnar
Conflicts: lib/swiotlb.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-13cpuset: avoid changing cpuset's cpus when -errno returnedLi Zefan
After the patch: commit 0b2f630a28d53b5a2082a5275bc3334b10373508 Author: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Fri Jul 25 01:47:21 2008 -0700 cpusets: restructure the function update_cpumask() and update_nodemask() It might happen that 'echo 0 > /cpuset/sub/cpus' returned failure but 'cpus' has been changed, because cpus was changed before calling heap_init() which may return -ENOMEM. This patch restores the orginal behavior. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-11sysctl: Use header file for sysctl knob declarations on sparc.David S. Miller
This also takes care of a sparse warning as scons_pwroff's definition point. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11sysctl: Use CONFIG_SPARC instead of __sparc__ for ifdef tests.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11hrtimer: peek at the timer queue just before going idleArjan van de Ven
As part of going idle, we already look at the time of the next timer event to determine which C-state to select etc. This patch adds functionality that causes the timers that are past their soft expire time, to fire at this time, before we calculate the next wakeup time. This functionality will thus avoid wakeups by running timers before going idle rather than specially waking up for it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-11hrtimer: make the futex() system call use the per process slack valueArjan van de Ven
This patch makes the futex() system call use the per process slack value; with this users are able to externally control existing applications to reduce the wakeup rate. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-11hrtimer: make the nanosleep() syscall use the per process slackArjan van de Ven
This patch makes the nanosleep() system call use the per process slack value; with this users are able to externally control existing applications to reduce the wakeup rate. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-11Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-09-11sched: fix deadlock in setting scheduler parameter to zeroHiroshi Shimamoto
Andrei Gusev wrote: > I played witch scheduler settings. After doing something like: > echo -n 1000000 >sched_rt_period_us > > command is locked. I found in kernel.log: > > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Pid: 4495, comm: bash Tainted: G W > (2.6.26.3 #12) > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: 0060:[<c0213fc7>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 0 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP is at div64_u64+0x57/0x80 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EAX: 0000389f EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 > EDX: 00000000 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ESI: d9800000 EDI: d9800000 EBP: 0000389f > ESP: ea7a6edc > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Process bash (pid: 4495, ti=ea7a6000 > task=ea744000 task.ti=ea7a6000) > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Stack: 00000000 000003e8 d9800000 0000389f > c0119042 00000000 00000000 00000001 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra 00000000 00000000 ea7a6f54 00010000 00000000 > c04d2e80 00000001 000e7ef0 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra c01191a3 00000000 00000000 ea7a6fa0 00000001 > ffffffff c04d2e80 ea5b2480 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Call Trace: > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0119042>] __rt_schedulable+0x52/0x130 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01191a3>] sched_rt_handler+0x83/0x120 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76a6>] proc_sys_call_handler+0xb6/0xd0 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76c0>] proc_sys_write+0x0/0x20 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76d9>] proc_sys_write+0x19/0x20 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cc68>] vfs_write+0xa8/0x140 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cdd1>] sys_write+0x41/0x80 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0103051>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x91 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ======================= > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Code: c8 41 0f ad f3 d3 ee f6 c1 20 0f 45 de > 31 f6 0f ad ef d3 ed f6 c1 20 0f 45 fd 0f 45 ee 31 c9 39 eb 89 fe 89 ea > 77 08 89 e8 31 d2 <f7> f3 89 c1 89 f0 8b 7c 24 08 f7 f3 8b 74 24 04 89 > ca 8b 1c 24 > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: [<c0213fc7>] div64_u64+0x57/0x80 SS:ESP > 0068:ea7a6edc > Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- fix the boundary condition. sysctl_sched_rt_period=0 makes exception at to_ratio(). Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-11sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomlyZhang, Yanmin
On my tulsa x86-64 machine, kernel 2.6.25-rc5 couldn't boot randomly. Basically, function __enable_runtime forgets to reset rt_rq->rt_throttled to 0. When every cpu is up, per-cpu migration_thread is created and it runs very fast, sometimes to mark the corresponding rt_rq->rt_throttled to 1 very quickly. After all cpus are up, with below calling chain: sched_init_smp => arch_init_sched_domains => build_sched_domains => ... => cpu_attach_domain => rq_attach_root => set_rq_online => ... => _enable_runtime _enable_runtime is called against every rt_rq again, so rt_rq->rt_time is reset to 0, but rt_rq->rt_throttled might be still 1. Later on function do_sched_rt_period_timer couldn't reset it, and all RT tasks couldn't be scheduled to run on that cpu. here is RT task migration_thread which is woken up when a task is migrated to another cpu. Below patch fixes it against 2.6.27-rc5. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/unify-cpu-detectIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/iommuIngo Molnar
2008-09-10Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-09-09clockevents: remove WARN_ON which was used to gather informationThomas Gleixner
The issue of the endless reprogramming loop due to a too small min_delta_ns was fixed with the previous updates of the clock events code, but we had no information about the spread of this problem. I added a WARN_ON to get automated information via kerneloops.org and to get some direct reports, which allowed me to analyse the affected machines. The WARN_ON has served its purpose and would be annoying for a release kernel. Remove it and just keep the information about the increase of the min_delta_ns value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-08Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild sched, cpuset: rework sched domains and CPU hotplug handling (v4)
2008-09-08kernel/cpu.c: create a CPU_STARTING cpu_chain notifierManfred Spraul
Right now, there is no notifier that is called on a new cpu, before the new cpu begins processing interrupts/softirqs. Various kernel function would need that notification, e.g. kvm works around by calling smp_call_function_single(), rcu polls cpu_online_map. The patch adds a CPU_STARTING notification. It also adds a helper function that sends the message to all cpu_chain handlers. Tested on x86-64. All other archs are untested. Especially on sparc, I'm not sure if I got it right. Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07hrtimer: show the timer ranges in /proc/timer_listArjan van de Ven
to help debugging and visibility of timer ranges, show them in the existing timer list in /proc/timer_list Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-07hrtimer: add a hrtimer_start_range() functionArjan van de Ven
this patch adds a _range version of hrtimer_start() so that range timers can be created; the hrtimer_start() function is just a wrapper around this. In addition, hrtimer_start_expires() will now preserve existing ranges. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-06Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: clocksource, acpi_pm.c: check for monotonicity clocksource, acpi_pm.c: use proper read function also in errata mode ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC sync x86: HPET: read back compare register before reading counter x86: HPET fix moronic 32/64bit thinko clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters HPET: make minimum reprogramming delta useful clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setup clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
2008-09-06Merge branch 'sched/cpuset' into sched/urgentIngo Molnar
2008-09-06genirq: irq_chip->startup() usage in setup_irq and set_irq_chained handlerPawel MOLL
This patch clarifies usage of irq_chip->startup() callback: 1. The "if (startup) startup(); else enabled();" code in setup_irq() is unnecessary, as startup() falls back to enabled() via default callbacks, set by irq_chip_set_defaults(). 2. When using set_irq_chained_handler() the startup() was never called, which is not good at all... Fixed. And again - when startup() is not defined the call will fall back to enable() than to unmask() via default callbacks. Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@st.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06softirq: allocate less vectorsAlexey Dobriyan
We don't need whole 32 of them, only NR_SOFTIRQS. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuildMax Krasnyansky
What I realized recently is that calling rebuild_sched_domains() in arch_reinit_sched_domains() by itself is not enough when cpusets are enabled. partition_sched_domains() code is trying to avoid unnecessary domain rebuilds and will not actually rebuild anything if new domain masks match the old ones. What this means is that doing echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings on a system with cpusets enabled will not take affect untill something changes in the cpuset setup (ie new sets created or deleted). This patch fixes restore correct behaviour where domains must be rebuilt in order to enable MC powersaving flags. Test on quad-core Core2 box with both CONFIG_CPUSETS and !CONFIG_CPUSETS. Also tested on dual-core Core2 laptop. Lockdep is happy and things are working as expected. Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06kernel/cpu.c: Move the CPU_DYING notifiersManfred Spraul
When a cpu is taken offline, the CPU_DYING notifiers are called on the dying cpu. According to <linux/notifiers.h>, the cpu should be "not running any task, not handling interrupts, soon dead". For the current implementation, this is not true: - __cpu_disable can fail. If it fails, then the cpu will remain alive and happy. - At least on x86, __cpu_disable() briefly enables the local interrupts to handle any outstanding interrupts. What about moving CPU_DYING down a few lines, behind the __cpu_disable() line? There are only two CPU_DYING handlers in the kernel right now: one in kvm, one in the scheduler. Both should work with the patch applied [and: I'm not sure if either one handles a failing __cpu_disable()] The patch survives simple offlining a cpu. kvm untested due to lack of a test setup. Signed-off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06sched: fix __load_balance_iterator() for cfq with only one taskGautham R Shenoy
The __load_balance_iterator() returns a NULL when there's only one sched_entity which is a task. It is caused by the following code-path. /* Skip over entities that are not tasks */ do { se = list_entry(next, struct sched_entity, group_node); next = next->next; } while (next != &cfs_rq->tasks && !entity_is_task(se)); if (next == &cfs_rq->tasks) return NULL; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This will return NULL even when se is a task. As a side-effect, there was a regression in sched_mc behavior since 2.6.25, since iter_move_one_task() when it calls load_balance_start_fair(), would not get any tasks to move! Fix this by checking if the last entity was a task or not. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06Merge branch 'linus' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-09-06ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC syncMaciej W. Rozycki
We have a bug in the calculation of the next jiffie to trigger the RTC synchronisation. The aim here is to run sync_cmos_clock() as close as possible to the middle of a second. Which means we want this function to be called less than or equal to half a jiffie away from when now.tv_nsec equals 5e8 (500000000). If this is not the case for a given call to the function, for this purpose instead of updating the RTC we calculate the offset in nanoseconds to the next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be equal 5e8. The calculated offset is then converted to jiffies as these are the unit used by the timer. Hovewer timespec_to_jiffies() used here uses a ceil()-type rounding mode, where the resulting value is rounded up. As a result the range of now.tv_nsec when the timer will trigger is from 5e8 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC rather than the desired 5e8 - TICK_NSEC / 2 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2. As a result if for example sync_cmos_clock() happens to be called at the time when now.tv_nsec is between 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2 and 5e8 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC, it will simply be rescheduled HZ jiffies later, falling in the same range of now.tv_nsec again. Similarly for cases offsetted by an integer multiple of TICK_NSEC. This change addresses the problem by subtracting TICK_NSEC / 2 from the nanosecond offset to the next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be equal 5e8, effectively shifting the following rounding in timespec_to_jiffies() so that it produces a rounded-to-nearest result. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06Merge branch 'linus' into timers/ntpIngo Molnar
2008-09-06sched: compilation fix with gcc 3.4.6Krzysztof Helt
I found that 2.6.27-rc5-mm1 does not compile with gcc 3.4.6. The error is: CC kernel/sched.o kernel/sched.c: In function `start_rt_bandwidth': kernel/sched.c:208: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'rt_bandwidth_enabled': function body not available kernel/sched.c:214: sorry, unimplemented: called from here make[1]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel] Error 2 It seems that the gcc 3.4.6 requires full inline definition before first usage. The patch below fixes the compilation problem. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> (if needed> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waitersThomas Gleixner
Until the C1E patches arrived there where no users of periodic broadcast before switching to oneshot mode. Now we need to trigger a possible waiter for a periodic broadcast when switching to oneshot mode. Otherwise we can starve them for ever. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-05hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task structArjan van de Ven
We want to be able to control the default "rounding" that is used by select() and poll() and friends. This is a per process property (so that we can have a "nice" like program to start certain programs with a looser or stricter rounding) that can be set/get via a prctl(). For this purpose, a field called "timer_slack_ns" is added to the task struct. In addition, a field called "default_timer_slack"ns" is added so that tasks easily can temporarily to a more/less accurate slack and then back to the default. The default value of the slack is set to 50 usec; this is significantly less than 2.6.27's average select() and poll() timing error but still allows the kernel to group timers somewhat to preserve power behavior. Applications and admins can override this via the prctl() Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05hrtimer: turn hrtimers into range timersArjan van de Ven
this patch turns hrtimers into range timers; they have 2 expire points 1) the soft expire point 2) the hard expire point the kernel will do it's regular best effort attempt to get the timer run at the hard expire point. However, if some other time fires after the soft expire point, the kernel now has the freedom to fire this timer at this point, and thus grouping the events and preventing a power-expensive wakeup in the future. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05hrtimer: convert kernel/* to the new hrtimer apisArjan van de Ven
In order to be able to do range hrtimers we need to use accessor functions to the "expire" member of the hrtimer struct. This patch converts kernel/* to these accessors. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05select: add a timespec_add_safe() functionThomas Gleixner
For the select() rework, it's important to be able to add timespec structures in an overflow-safe manner. This patch adds a timespec_add_safe() function for this which is similar in operation to ktime_add_safe(), but works on a struct timespec. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05select: Introduce a hrtimeout functionArjan van de Ven
This patch adds a schedule_hrtimeout() function, to be used by select() and poll() in a later patch. This function works similar to schedule_timeout() in most ways, but takes a timespec rather than jiffies. With a lot of contributions/fixes from Thomas Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-05sched: fix process time monotonicityBalbir Singh
Spencer reported a problem where utime and stime were going negative despite the fixes in commit b27f03d4bdc145a09fb7b0c0e004b29f1ee555fa. The suspected reason for the problem is that signal_struct maintains it's own utime and stime (of exited tasks), these are not updated using the new task_utime() routine, hence sig->utime can go backwards and cause the same problem to occur (sig->utime, adds tsk->utime and not task_utime()). This patch fixes the problem TODO: using max(task->prev_utime, derived utime) works for now, but a more generic solution is to implement cputime_max() and use the cputime_gt() function for comparison. Reported-by: spencer@bluehost.com Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05sched_clock: fix NOHZ interactionPeter Zijlstra
If HLT stops the TSC, we'll fail to account idle time, thereby inflating the actual process times. Fix this by re-calibrating the clock against GTOD when leaving nohz mode. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05clockevents: prevent endless loop lockupThomas Gleixner
The C1E/HPET bug reports on AMDX2/RS690 systems where tracked down to a too small value of the HPET minumum delta for programming an event. The clockevents code needs to enforce an interrupt event on the clock event device in some cases. The enforcement code was stupid and naive, as it just added the minimum delta to the current time and tried to reprogram the device. When the minimum delta is too small, then this loops forever. Add a sanity check. Allow reprogramming to fail 3 times, then print a warning and double the minimum delta value to make sure, that this does not happen again. Use the same function for both tick-oneshot and tick-broadcast code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdownThomas Gleixner
While chasing the C1E/HPET bugreports I went through the clock events code inch by inch and found that the broadcast device can be initialized and shutdown multiple times. Multiple shutdowns are not critical, but useless waste of time. Multiple initializations are simply broken. Another CPU might have the device in use already after the first initialization and the second init could just render it unusable again. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setupThomas Gleixner
In tick_oneshot_setup we program the device to the given next_event, but we do not check the return value. We need to make sure that the device is programmed enforced so the interrupt handler engine starts working. Split out the reprogramming function from tick_program_event() and call it with the device, which was handed in to tick_setup_oneshot(). Set the force argument, so the devices is firing an interrupt. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handlerThomas Gleixner
The reprogramming of the periodic broadcast handler was broken, when the first programming returned -ETIME. The clockevents code stores the new expiry value in the clock events device next_event field only when the programming time has not been elapsed yet. The loop in question calculates the new expiry value from the next_event value and therefor never increases. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>